2 TB of Hard Drive have just vanished

[MeerkatGamingYT]

Hi all, Thanks for taking the time and reading. I bought a 500gb M.2 and I initialised it. I go to look at my precious new fast SSD and find that I'm missing a whole drive. It seems to have been replaced with (Image 1). Images 2 & 3 show what it comes up as in Disk Management. The only option I get for it is to select properties and that is what Image 3 is showing. 2TB of data is a lot to just lose suddenly. Any help would be great, thanks! Don't be afraid to ask for more detail if need be!

[Helpful Tech Witch]

Just a guess here:
Often, the M.2 port shares its internal sata connection with sata 0/1

Your hdd is probably in that port and thus insnt visible as the m.2 diabled those ports

[MeerkatGamingYT]

Just now, Helpful Tech Witch said:

Just a guess here:
Often, the M.2 port shares its internal sata connection with sata 0/1

Your hdd is probably in that port and thus insnt visible as the m.2 diabled those ports

What would be your suggestion then? I've gone through the BIOS too and to no avail, it doesn't show up there at all either.

[Helpful Tech Witch]

Just now, MeerkatGamingYT said:

What would be your suggestion then? I've gone through the BIOS too and to no avail, it doesn't show up there at all either.

it wouldnt. You need to physically switch what motherboard port the hdd uses

[Needfuldoer]

2 minutes ago, MeerkatGamingYT said:

What would be your suggestion then? I've gone through the BIOS too and to no avail, it doesn't show up there at all either.

If the M.2 slot you installed your new SSD in shares lanes with some of your SATA ports, you won't see the SATA drive.

 

Is the missing drive SATA?

What model motherboard do you have? Its manual will tell you if anything shares PCIe lanes.

[MeerkatGamingYT]

3 minutes ago, Needfuldoer said:

If the M.2 slot you installed your new SSD in shares lanes with some of your SATA ports, you won't see the SATA drive.

 

Is the missing drive SATA?

What model motherboard do you have? Its manual will tell you if anything shares PCIe lanes.

I switched it to the sata lane that all the other drives are in and it's just showed up! The Hard Drive is a SATA one yes.